Graphics and technology Conference
The SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival and Art Gallery will feature 51 California filmmakers and artists in its programs, both part of the 34th International Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques being held 5-9 August 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is internationally recognized as the world’s premier event for computer graphics & animation. Groundbreaking films presented at the Computer Animation Festival have amazed audiences for 3 decades. Since 1999, the festival has been an official qualifying event for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences "Best Animated Short Film" award.
Canon at Campus Technology Show
From the classroom to the computer lab, higher education relies on technology to prime tomorrow’s workforce for the tech-savvy world that awaits them. As an industry leader in digital imaging, Canon USA, Inc. bolsters the union of technology and education by providing innovative solutions ranging from the world’s fastest digital SLR camera to printers with the ChomaLife100 ink system. These technologies will be on display at this year’s Campus Technology show at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C., to be held July 30 to August 2, 2007. Canon also supports the education community with various programs about the environment and children.
IPTV at IFA Berlin 2007
With the increasing pace of digi-talization of television transmission a new acronym has emerged: IPTV, which stands for “television on the basis of the internet protocol”. This refers to new kinds of television services which permit genuine interactivity, in other words not simply the capability for zapping through all the channels but also video on demand and individual access to all kinds of information and entertainment programmes. In this way television is expanding beyond the structures typically associated with it today: Viewers are no longer restricted solely to a time sequence stipulated by the programme schedules. Irrespective of the schedules drawn up by the television networks.
